I have a pet peeve about cabinet doors left open...
So, my FH and his kids leave the cabinet doors open all the time and it pisses me off to no end! So I told them at dinner the other day when I found a cabinet door open that I'm going to open EVERY cabinet and drawer so they can close em all themselves....and so they can see how much it pisses me off. Well low and behold yesterday someone left a cabinet door open and I opened EVERY drawer and door in the kitchen. FH came home from dropping his daughter off at a party and asked what the hell was going on...I reminded him what I told him and his kids...don't know who actually left the cabinet door open but he closed all of them and the doors. Hope I taught a lesson!
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Ditto
This is one of my pet peeves too! It drives me nuts to no end! My dh will leave them open too. Maybe I will try that approach and see how they react! They will probably just leave them open. Another peeve of mine is running in the house AND sitting on the arms of the sofas!!!
Well....
DH is the one who leaves the cabinets open in our house....drives me insane!!!!
SD has a habit of not flushing the toilet.......UHHHHMMMM sometimes I wish she left the cabinets open instead....LOL
I have the same problem with the bathroom
I will get up in the morning to find toilet paper and pee in the toilet and I can't stand it...so I will be pooping and peeing in the kids bathroom from now on and not flushing. Maybe after they see how bad my poop looks they might start to flush their own...
I have so many of these things going on at my house
I walk through and turn off lights, shut doors-drawers etc, pick up shoes, jackets, toys, hats, empty glasses, snack plates, plastic candy wrappers- you NAME it. I empty the dishwasher and return two hours later to see a stack of dishes in the sink - non rinsed, and sitting right beside the dishwasher. My favorite- TRASH- like the wrappers, and socks they've decided to take off, tossed everywhere, stuffed into or under furniture, or lying right next to a container for either laundry or trash- that was too difficult to hit.
I vent and complain and nag, and everyone I live with just continues to drop their crap wherever they feel convenient.
It's so frustrating. But they just don't care. Then if I ask for help I'm a nag, or controlling, or anal, or OCD etc.
I don't understand why no one I live with values putting shit away, or wiping off the counter where they've spilled something, etc. I didn't do that growing up- automatically. We didn't have a perfectly sanitized and germ free environment, but it wasn't a dump either.
wiping the counter
where they've spilled is one for me too. One morning I got up after skids had made themselves toast with butter and jelly....let me tell you. There was jelly on the counter, butter smeared on the sink handle and dishwasher handle AND all over the butter bowl! And when I opened that butter bowl guess what I saw? That's right! Toast crumbs all down in the butter. UGHHHHHHH!
"If your going through hell, keep on going, don't slow down, if you're scared, don't show it, you might get out before the devil even knows you're there" -Rodney Atkins
i feel yer pain
I think its with all kids my BD and SKs all do it so does the BF lol! What i do is i ask once maybe twice to pick up then .....garbage! i cant tell you how many times the kids stuff has gotten thrown out! with my BF he works so much i bitch but not too much but the kids err! i come in from class at midnite and its dark and i trip over everyones shoes never fails. my peeve is wash cloths left layin in the tub.
Anything
left on the floor in my house gets thrown away. Period. Everyone knows this and cleans up after themselves. And once it's in the trash, it stays there.
I really like a clean house, although I'm not obsessive about it.
One of my biggest pet peeves is when the kids take a shower, then roll up the wet towel into a ball and leave it in the corner of the bathroom....ARGH!!
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." ~Robert Frost
wet towel in a wet ball
in the bathroom floor is one my SD11 WAS notorious for. The last time she did it I made her responsible for washing all the towels and washcloths, folding and putting them in their PROPER place for a month. She has never done it again.
"If your going through hell, keep on going, don't slow down, if you're scared, don't show it, you might get out before the devil even knows you're there" -Rodney Atkins
I'm with you on the crap they leave out...it's thown out!
As far as the wadded up towel goes....I leave it and make the skids use it every time they're over. Don't know if you've ever smelled it but it doesn't smell pretty. And that stench clings to your skin if you use that towel...it's only time when it comes to kids at school not wanting to hang around her because she stinks so bad...and believe me...a lot of days she does!
so do you get support from
so do you get support from your husbands?? If I did than he would soooo stick up for the kids... I have threatened to do that so many times.....my ss 19 doesn't do a stich of laundry and there are no towels for the other kids because he has them in a pile in his room....but i told my husband i wasnt' going to do it..and he did it for him!!! then told me he was tired of hearing me bitch.....
Straight to the trash for me..too
BS12/SD8/SS7 and DH all know the rule...pick it up because if I have to then the only place it's going to get set back down is going to be the trash. DH totally backs me on this...once he saw how effective it was. He used to cover for skid until I said fine then you pick up after them..that lasted a whole day. We too had the problem of skids disrespecting our furniture DH asked if they sit like that at "moms" to no surprise the answer was yes...to fix that I didn't allow skids to sit on the sofas and/or dining chairs. DH has 50/50 custody so imagine going 7 full days of having to sit on the floor to do homework to eat...that only took one week for the skids to get the point. Yes in the begining DH thought I was being unreasonable but after talking to my family he soon found out I had the same rules for BS12 and he always says he wishes his children could be the same way...told him they can be just have to do the hard work/parenting.
BM hates the rules in our house so when skids go back to her house for the week there are no rules she says to "makeup" for all the fun they missed at our house....hey to each his own as long as we dont have any issues while they are with us.
Oh I dont have a problem with cabinet doors being left open but I did with bedroom/bathroom doors....sooooo I had DH take the doors off for one whole day/night...yes even their bathroom. When they came to me and asked what they were supposed to do I told them "figure it out"...and they did, told each other when they were going in and the others stayed away. I NEVER HAD THE PROBLEM AGAIN. Helped them with teamwork as well..that was just a bonus...now they'll close each others doors. Oh it also helps that we run a one for all, all for one type of rule system...it only takes one to screw it up for them all.
Good luck
I hate to open a food box and see the food staring back at me
I hate it when people don't close up the plastic packaging in cereal boxes and cracker packages. If you bothered to shut the box, then why couldn't you go the extra step and close the packaging the food is actually in too? Nothing ticks me off more.
Well, except for when someone else's laundry is still in the washer when I get ready to do ours.
ME too on both these
Is it the OCD? Or does most of the next generation simply lack any common sense combined with total apathy for common courtesy?
I think it's the latter -
no common courtesy. Plus the fact that they belong to GenY and the "It's all about me" era. I came home again last night to clothes in the washer and dryer that were not ours (DH or mine). Guess what - DH was doing them this morning for SD. Folded them then stuck another load in for her. Thing is - she'll start the clothes then go off somewhere with BF and not finish them knowing he'll do it and he does. It apparently bothers him too but instead of saying anything he'll just do it. UUUUGGGHHHH!
SD still tries this with me, but
I remove her stuff and put it in a basket soaking wet til she is back to do it. We have two dryers too, so if she leaves stuff in one and I only need the other one, I leave it in there as long I don't need it. If I do need it? In a basket to sit til she is willing to do it.
I used to let her put her laundry in with the rest of us (laundry for 6 what fun!) But then she will come downstairs if she wants something and dig thru/dump all my sorted baskets out (I always have several baskets lined up by the washer til they fill up, which of course takes a day at most! So I sort it all so it's easy to toss in- colors, towels, darks and whites lined up to go, and then I go back down to find them all mixed up in a pile on the floor again.
That's when I told her that her laundry is not allowed in the basement til she is ready to do a load.
Her room is totally trashed too. The boys room never gets as bad and there are TWO of them sharing. I finally gave up and shut the door. Unless I smell something foul like wet stuff or left over food she's stashed in there, I don't do anything about her room anymore.
I should start
thanking my lucky stars that snowshyte is so freakin organized! Her room is ALWAYS spotless while ChooChoo(bs7) has a hurricane hit his room daily:)
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~Edward, Duke of Windsor, Look, 5 March 1957
I have removed
clothes from the washer and stuck them on the dryer in a pile or removed them from the dryer and carried them all wadded up to her room and threw them on the bed. I refuse to do laundry for a girl who claims she is an adult.
Funny thing is DH will see what I've done and take care of it and never say a word. I sometimes wonder what he thinks. }:)
Actually, I find that all
Actually, I find that all the time with cereal in my house so I would leave it and usually by the next time the skids came over the cereal would be stale. I won't buy anything new until it's gone so they have to eat it stale until it's all gone. I used to eat cereal for breakfast but after that crap started happening I moved on to breakfast bars, bagels and english muffins (which are all hidden!)
Open cabinets doors, lights left on, water running
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continually - my DH is the worst about turning anything off, closing cabinet doors or picking stuff up. We have a dishwasher - I can't stand dirty dishes piled up in the sink! It makes me nuts, I don't know why but it does. But my worst obsession is open food containers, whether they're in the fridge (everything has to be covered or it goes in the trash) or in the pantry. Just last Saturday I went to grab something off the top shelf in the pantry and DH had opened a bag a dry roasted in the shell peanuts - well guess what rained down on my head?! I was so pissed off, even the dogs cleared out!
Yes...DH's too.
I also get irritated with SD especially opening things in the pantry that should be refrigerated but just sticking them back in the pantry. Like frosting, choc syrup, ketchup, pickles, jelly, etc. She will eat something like on a binge, and therefore doesn't want to chance being seen putting it away properly.
Or how about potato chip bags with a chip clip on an end, but it's not actually even remotely CLOSED first. Just a useless clip hanging there. So she can say, "I put a CLIP on it like you TOLD me to!" Or the graham crackers that are just lying in the box open- GET A BAGGY! Etc etc. We had a mouse living large out of the pantry when I moved in. DH had got a mouser cat b/c we have a woodline at the back of our yard. Ummm...the mice weren't here b/c of the WOODS. They were here b/c no one closed a container and SOMEONE left food stashes all over the house.
wow I must be REALLY
neurotic because ALL of these things irritate me! lol...yikes!
My personal favorite is when snowshyte takes a 35minute shower...singing LOUDLY the WHOLE TIME. I'm like,"um snowshyte, we have a WELL...we are not on city water ok sweetie?? You are not THAT filthy to warrant a 35minute shower."
Or the way NO ONE in my house understands that granite counter tops are to be without clutter...otherwise what's the point of having pretty countertops?? Put the damned peanut butter in the pantry!!!
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~Edward, Duke of Windsor, Look, 5 March 1957
It's funny...
FH and I have differing annoyances. Example, I am bad about turning off lights...I just don't think about it. FH hates this! Well that's understandable...he works as an energy conservation consultant for our state's main power company. hmmm...come to think of it, all of the things I can think of that annoy him have to do with the electricity. lol
Things that annoy me most...most of the above, plus
1) when anyone uses my towel
2) when people do not rinse their plate after dinner
3) when people put away plates from the dishwasher that OBVIOUSLY weren't rinsed first
4) how SD8 is totally and utterly incapable of closing a door behind her
5) dried up toothpaste/spit in the bathroom sinks (yuck)
6) when people miss the bathroom garbage (q-tips, tissue...yuck again) and just leave it for ME to pick up
I could go on but I'm getting on my own nerves now. lol
I have the same list, but like your DH I am irritated by lights
Well, in particular during the school year if I don't come down til SD's gone (if my sons' arent' at my house I sometimes purposely stay in my room til she leaves) and every single stinkin' light in the house is on. Two in the kitchen, both the bathrooms, the dining room, the office, the hall light, SD's room...
ARGHHHHHH!
Do you suffer from weak vision that you need every single light on? Oh- and if she's done laundry then the basement's all lit up from the rec room to the laundry room too. I wonder how much lower our electric bill would be if she wasn't here.
OH- and how about the TV? Both SD, BSs and BD (hmmm...DH too a bit) are guilty of leaving a TV on. I walk through the den and livingroom and both TVs are blaring. I turn them off. Then on my way down to do all that laundry I mentioned, I turn off the one in the rec room. Might even have to pop into BSs or SD's rooms to turn off their radios that no ones listening to.
Then, a half hour to an hour later...all of them are back on and no one is watching/listening to them.
wash rinse repeat, wash rinse repeat
That's MY LIFE.